Introduction

Welcome to the Department of Community Medicine in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands Institute of Medical sciences, Port Blair. In this Department we have dedicated and experienced staff to guide the students. The Department is well equipped with the modern educational technology gadgets to train the undergraduates as per the guidelines of Medical Council of India.

The Department of Community Medicine has the following purposes

Teaching Undergraduate Students

Providing Health care to the Community

Conducting Research & Training Programmes

UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING

The broad goal of the teaching of undergraduate students in community medicine is to prepare them to function as Community and First Level Physicians in accordance with the institutional goals.

Community Medicine department is involved in training undergraduate students in the fields of Epidemiology, Demography, Communicable & Non Communicable diseases, Environmental factors in Diseases and Basic Biostatistics. Through Lectures, Field Visits and internship the students are oriented to the state of public health in the country and functioning of health care system. Also,the Department has the role of training the students to understand the Social & Economic factors which promote and perpetuate the factors responsible for ill health.

PROVIDING HEALTH CARE

Though three Primary Health Centres and an Urban Health centre, the department is involved in providing primary health care to the people. In addition, special health & Education camps are being organized on important health days. Health Education programmes is also being organized by the Undergraduate students.

RESEARCH & TRAINING

Apart from training of Undergraduate students in conducting research, the department provides technical inputs to faculty members in conducting research. Training programmes have been organized periodically for Health care Workers in topics related to Public health.

TRAINING CONDUCTED

The department conducted a training programme on Biomedical Waste Management for the Staff Nurses of GB Pant Hospital from 30/3/15 to 4/4/15 in which 119 Staff Nurses were trained.

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G.Jahnavi, PatraSatyaRanjan. Gender and Health Differences in the Children of less than 6 years of age attending the integrated child development services scheme. Indian Journal of Maternal and Child Health. 2010; 12 (3):2-7.

G.Jahnavi, SatyaRanjanPatra, Sarah E. Singh. A study of the symptoms of Gastro Oesophageal Reflux Disease and associated risk factors among the rural school children of Veleru India – International Journal of Medicine and Public Health. 2013; 3(4): 321-324.